Revolutionary Big Data Environmental Analysis Indicates Declining
Animal Populations in Studied Tropical Forests
HP-Powered Technology Develops Early Warning System for
Threatened Species
BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Dec 10, 2013) - HP (NYSE: HPQ)
today announced an innovative collaboration with Conservation
International (CI) -- a leading non-governmental organization
dedicated to protecting nature for people -- to dramatically
improve the accuracy and speed of analysis of data collection in
environmental science.
The initiative, called HP Earth Insights, delivers
near-real-time analytics and is already yielding new information
that indicates a decline in a significant percentage of species
monitored. The project serves as an early warning system for
conservation efforts, enabling proactive responses to environmental
threats.
HP Earth Insights applies HP's big data technology to the
ecological research being conducted across 16 tropical forests
around the world by CI, the Smithsonian Institution and the
Wildlife Conservation Society, as part of the Tropical Ecology
Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network. Tropical forests are home
to approximately 30 million species -- half of all the plants and
animals on earth -- and generate 40 percent of the earth's oxygen.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, tropical
forests are vanishing at a rate of about 18,000 square miles (4.6
million hectares) per year. Data and analysis from HP Earth
Insights will be shared with protected area managers to develop
policies regarding hunting and other causes of species loss in
these ecosystems.
"HP Earth Insights is transforming environmental science.
Until now, the right data, the technology and scale have been
noticeably missing from our field," said Peter Seligmann, chairman
and chief executive officer, Conservation International. "What once
took a team of scientists weeks, months or more to analyze can now
be done by a single person in hours."
The most recent findings have revealed:
- Of the 275 species being monitored, 60 species -- or 22 percent
-- are either significantly decreasing in population or likely
decreasing compared to baseline levels.
- Findings indicate 33 of the species being monitored -- or 12
percent -- have significantly decreased in numbers. Among these
are: the sun bear and the wild boar found in Malaysia (Pasoh Forest
Reserve), the agile mangabey found in the Republic of Congo
(Nouabalé Ndoke), and the greater grison found in Ecuador
(Yasuni).
- The population of the Western Gorilla, which lives in the
Republic of Congo (Nouabalé Ndoke) and is considered a Critically
Endangered species, is likely declining -- approximately 10 percent
from the 2009 baseline -- according to new data.
- The following insectivores are likely declining: the moonrat
and masked palm civet found in Malaysia (Pasoh Forest Reserve), the
banded mongoose, four-toed elephant shrew and checkered elephant
shrew found in Tanzania (Udzungwa), the northern tamandua found in
Costa Rica (Volcàn Barva) and large tree shrew found in Indonesia
(Bukit Barisan).
For this project, HP is providing a customized solution that
harnesses the power of its big data offerings to address the
challenges faced by CI scientists:
- The HP Vertica Analytics Platform -- a next-generation software
tool designed to manage and analyze massive and fast-growing
volumes of data with unprecedented speed and accuracy -- will be
used to address the needs of CI scientists to collect, store and
assess a variety of data. The HP Vertica Analytics Platform is a
cornerstone of HP HAVEn, which provides the ability to manage,
transform and analyze the full spectrum of structured,
semi-structured and unstructured data for customers and partners
with complex data challenges.
- The Wildlife Picture Index (WPI) Analytics System -- a
dashboard and analytics tool built by HP Enterprise Services --
allows for the visualization of user-friendly, data-driven insights
to be accessed anytime, anywhere.
Currently, HP Earth Insights manages three Terabytes of critical
biodiversity information, including more than 1.4 million photos
and more than 3 million climate measurements. The project analyzes,
with unprecedented speed, the ever-increasing inputs related to
species, vegetation, precipitation, temperature, carbon stocks,
humidity and more, gathered from camera traps and climate sensors
in 16 countries to deliver findings about the environment that
previously were unknown.
"In an effort to help create a more sustainable world, HP
Earth Insights uses our products and services to deliver near
real-time analytics to provide scientists with more accurate and
more actionable environmental information," said Meg Whitman,
president and chief executive officer, HP. "The results of the
early warning system demonstrate the ability of HP to use big data
to address the world's most complex challenges for our customers
and partners across sectors, industries and
organizations."
HP Earth Insights makes its findings publicly available to
empower policymakers and scientists to proactively respond to
environmental threats as they emerge and work together to find
solutions.
"Tropical forests are a vital part of the planet's
life-support system -- we need them for the air we breathe and to
support a diverse and healthy ecosystem for agriculture, medicine
and recreation," said Seligmann. "We know that we can't protect
what we don't measure, which is why CI is extremely focused on
accelerating our research and having the most accurate and current
data to ensure that we are doing the very best to safeguard our
natural resources."
HP Earth Insights is delivering analytics nine times faster than
previously available and generating useable trend information on
species and the impacts of climate, people and land use with the
goal of helping to protect these important resources.
HP Earth Insights demonstrates HP's end-to-end capabilities in
action, from HP ElitePads that meet the mobility requirements of
the scientists to capture data in the tropical forests, to HP
ProLiant servers powering back-end data systems, to building out
the existing cloud component to meet the project's growing data
needs. HP is bringing to CI its customized Solutions for the New
Style of IT -- the convergence of big data, mobility, security and
cloud.
HP is focused on driving innovation across its business and is
committed to applying unique technology solutions for the New Style
of IT to meet diverse customers' and partners' needs.
Additional information, including a fact sheet and b-roll, is
available here, and below are links to the photo gallery as well as
Meg Whitman's keynote video:
About Conservation International Building upon a strong
foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI
empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature
and its global biodiversity to promote the long-term well-being of
people. Founded in 1987, CI is headquartered in the Washington,
D.C. area. CI employs more than 800 staff in nearly 20+ countries
on four continents and works with more than 1,000 partners around
the world. For more information, please see www.conservation.org or
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